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  Healthy Meals for Less -...

  Jonni McCoy

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  In this easy-to-use, make-it-from-scratch cookbook, Jonni McCoy, the original Miserly Mom, demonstrates that inexpensive meals can be both nutritious and mouth-watering.  She offers proof that living well without spending is doable.  Originally published as Miserly Meals, every recipe includes the price per serving and a nutritional analysis.  Kitchen tips are an added bonus with every recipe.  Simple soups, slow-cook dishes, breakfast ideas, vegetarian options, snacks, gifts from the kitchen, and more will make this the busy mom's most-used cookbook.

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  Red Line

  Charles Bowden

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  The author is joined by a retired narcotics cop as they investigate the assassination of a drug dealer and hit man outside Tucson, Arizona.One of Charles Bowden’s earliest books, Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edge―and decaying at its center. Bowden’s quest for the literal and figurative truth behind the assassination of a murderous border-town drug dealer becomes a meditation on the glories of the desert landscape, the squalors of the society that threatens it, and the contradictions inherent in trying to save it.“At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . A brave and interesting book.” —David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review“Charles Bowden’s Red Line is a look at America through the window of the southwest. His vision is as nasty, peculiar, brutal, as it is intriguing and, perhaps, accurate. Bowden offers consciousness rather than consolation, but in order to do anything about our nightmares we must take a cold look and Red Line casts the coldest eye in recent memory.” —Jim Harrison“The Southwest as portrayed in this Kerouac-esque odyssey betokening the death of the American frontier spirit is a landscape of broken dreams, violence, uprooted lives and fallen idols. . . . Miles distant from tourist-poster images of the Sunbelt, this vista of narrow greed, diminished expectations and despoilation of nature sizzles with the harsh, unrelenting glare of a hyperrealist painting.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Walking with Spring

  Earl V. Shaffer

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  In 1948, the Appalachian Trail had been a continuous, 2,000-mile footpath for eleven years, but no one had walked its length alone in a continuous journey—until Earl Shaffer, a quiet Pennsylvanian, became a hiking legend and the first of what is now more than 5,500 A.T. "thru-hikers," walking from Georgia to Maine as spring arrived to each area. In 1998, he hiked again as a 50th-anniversary celebration, to far greater publicity. This is the lyrical account of his fabled 1948 walk.Written soon after the first of his three thru-hikes, Walking with Spring chronicles Shaffer's adventures along a path that at the time was showing neglect of the war years and has since been rerouted significantly to its permanent location. His simply stated story has served as an inspiration for more than 9,000 men and women who have since followed in his footsteps . . . and many more who have tried.

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  The Secret Life of Trees

  Centre of Excellence

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  Trees are a familiar feature of any landscape, yet we rarely think about them. They are necessary for maintaining the health of the global ecosystem and provide many material things, but they are more of an integral part of our lives than we may at first consider. 
   
  The Secret Life of Trees audiobook aims to enlighten you on the importance of trees; how they are able to feel, see, hear, smell and speak; and the specific ways trees can contribute even more to our mental balance, harmony, and health.

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  Can I Sit on Your Lap While...

  Matthew Carroll

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  A father shares hilarious quotations from his young daughter in this heartwarming compilation. Single father Matthew Carroll didn’t always have someone to share in his frequent laughter and incredulity at the things said by his young daughter, Morgan. So he wrote down her best quotes to share with family and friends but soon discovered anyone could appreciate her pronouncements on topics such as sharing food, falling in love, growing up, where babies come from, and the dietary preferences of fairies. Can I Sit on Your Lap While You’re Pooping? is the compilation of the hilarious, crazy, and touching things said by a little girl, but it’s also the irresistible documentation of the love between a parent and child.

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  New York's Original Penn Station...

  Paul M Kaplan

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  The story of the spectacular and much-lamented train terminal whose destruction inspired a new passion for historic preservation. Includes photos.   In early twentieth-century New York, few could have imagined a train terminal as grand as Pennsylvania Station. Yet, executives at the Pennsylvania Railroad secretly bought up land in Manhattan's infamous Tenderloin District to build one of the world's most spectacular monuments.    Sandhogs would battle the fiercest of nature to build tunnels linking Manhattan to New Jersey and Long Island. For decades, Penn Station was a center of elegance and pride. But the ensuing rise of the airplane and automobile began to diminish train travel. Consequently, in the mid-1960s, the station was tragically destroyed. The loss inspired the birth of preservation laws in the city and the nation that would save other landmarks—such as New York’s Grand Central, just blocks away.    Here, Paul Kaplan recounts the trials and triumphs of New York's Penn Station, with extensive photos and illustrations.

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